cover image Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace and Magical Land

Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace and Magical Land

Jerome Charyn. Avon Books, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-70401-9

Novelist Charyn offers an irreverent look at people and institutions in New York City, as, for example, his description of Mayor Koch: ""A tall Woody Allen with a mean streak.'' PW recommended Charyn's ``delightfully wacky phenomenology.'' (September)